Posted on 11/05/2008 7:43:12 PM PST by April Lexington
The Electoral College will have the duty to certify that the winner of the "election" is properly qualified to take the oath of office and serve as President of the United States of America. Obama's birth cettificate may be required.
Oh please. The electors are party insiders, they will not be interested in looking into any closets or under any rugs. (Although one pledged to McCain might just have slipped past the "bipartisan" filter of the McCain Campain staff, who would stand up and try to get the information, but it's not clear that even she/he would have standing).
Now that might be different if the information gets into the public domain by other means. Lawsuits are still in play, but I don't hold out much hope for them.
McCain would presumably have had standing to sue to get the information released, but it's now too late for that.
Can you site to legal authority? It would be very helpful this week.
I was informed his election negated all requirements such as security clearances and he in fact determines what is to be.
Sucks eh!
Not your call to make noob. See post 31. And Obama has to respond to Berg’s case before the Scotus by December 1st.
...and to add ... there is no process to examine birth certificates because all candidates previously have had families with established histories. It was never an issue. the very fact we are even discussing this is troubling to me. The fact there is even a possibility this guy is not qualified is incredible to me. I don’t know legal details or how best to proceed but I wish our guys in Congress would push this. Even if he is qualified the very fact that it is even possible he is not qualified is enough to get out there to the masses.
As a party we should challenge, investigate, file lawsuits and generally muck up the works however we can.
Yep. Just a Patriot relying on our Constitutional rights to try to verify that a qualified person is sworn in. Its ultimately up to the Supreme Court. We have the same right to access the courts as the Left. They’re just much better at using the system to screw us.
What if 100,000 people showed up in front of the Supreme Court with signs and banners and POLITELY AND WITHOUT CAUSING TROUBLE demanded that the Court set procedures to VERIFY that the person about to be sworn in as President of the United States is qualified under the Constitution?
The Governor of Hawaii, Linda Lingle is a Republican, she endorsed John McCain for President, campaigned on McCain’s behalf and said that she considers Barack Obama unqualified to be President of the United States, yet on the issue of Barack Obama’s birth certificate, the Lingle administration
has already declared Obama’s original long form birth certificate to be genuine.
According to an Associated Press report State officials saud there’s no doubt Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.
Health Department Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said that she and the registrar of vital statistics, Alvin Onaka, had personally verified that the health department holds Obama’s original birth certificate.
Fukino says that no state official, including Governor Lingle had ever instructed that Obama’s certificate be handled any differently from any other Hawaii Vital Record.
She said that state law bars release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who does not have a tangible interest.
A southwest Ohio magistrate has rejected a challenge to Obama’s citizenship. Judges in Seattle and Philadelphia recently dismissed similar suits.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iw1At-4G1xuE50oXVFRlBPfR3dqgD945OLU00
I agree. You do that. I’ll work on the technical issues. These issues need to be settled and this is a great test case. You build the conservative movement and I’ll catch up to you once I disqualify this guy!
Look. This isn't going to happen. Forget it.
But if it did, it would go to whoever the electoral voters decided to give it to.
Legal minds think it can happen. That’s why the matter is before the bench.
As to who the chaos elects... could be interesting. It WILL destroy the Democratic Party, however.
There's a big difference between some "legal minds" thinking someting is possible, and it happening in the real world. Where is this question about the electoral college before any bench?
The only place the birth certificate issue has been before any bench, it's only been there long enough to get kicked off.
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